PVP Arena

First Steps

Make an account on the login screen (username + password — auto-saves locally so you only do this once). You'll start with 500 donuts and the free starter loadout: AK20, SG-8, Pistol, Flare, Fists, Frying Pan, Frag, Medkit. From the mode-select screen you can shop, redeem promo codes, or jump straight into a match.

Game Modes

Elimination (Round-Based)

Race (First to N Kills)

Special Modes

• D-Day — Defend the south trench line on the Battlefield against 3 waves (12, 12 and 26 troopers) that start from the far north edge and cross the whole field; MG42 + AK20 forced.
• Frontlines — Push the battle line to the enemy base.
• Boss Fight — One against one: you against a giant stationary boss: THE WARDEN (minigun arm, missile pod, uzi, mortar, chest laser and a railgun), THE CORE (orb rings with a gap, floor shockwaves, turning beams) or THE HYDRA (acid, ice, lightning). Three phases by its health (5,000 to 6,000); each phase refills your ammo and gives back 100 HP. Its minigun can be strafed, its missiles land where you were, the mortar shows red circles first and the laser a line first. You have one life.
• Last Stand — Hold the Battlefield's farmhouse with three bot teammates against endless waves of zombies (the same dead as Zombie Tower). They go for whoever is closest. Fallen teammates come back when the wave is cleared; you come back 6 s after you fall as long as one of them is still up. You keep your own loadout and get +60 HP and full ammo between waves.
• Shooting Range — Practice mode, no enemies.
• 👑 King of the Hill (KOTH) — 10 players, 3 lives each. Plays on the 250×250 BR arena map with vehicles, helicopters, and mortars.

🎮 Arcade Modes (9)

🔪 Quick melee

B (or the middle mouse button) swings the melee in your pocket, or fires its ability if it is ready, and puts you back on your gun. If the ability is cooling down it swings instead of doing nothing, and an ability that takes a moment to play out (the Bat's Crowd Clear charge, a slam, a dash, the Battle Axe's Whirlwind, the Scythe's aimed dash) is allowed to finish before the gun comes back; they were being cancelled. Meteor Hammer (new): the maul had no ability. It now flings its weight 12 m on the chain, the way the Chinese meteor hammer was used. A person in the way takes 60, is wrapped and reeled in, and is held a moment; a wall, ceiling or the floor takes the hook and the chain hauls you there. Nothing in reach, and nothing is spent.

🔥💧 Fire, water and the flame jet

Weapons are meant to interact, so a few of them now answer each other.

Why: the Flamethrower and the Molotov were pure damage with no answer. Now there is one (spray yourself down, throw smoke on the fire), and the Flamethrower gets a movement trick of its own in return.

📨 Painted wraps, approval and weapon ideas

Anybody can paint a weapon wrap in the pixelizer. A wrap you painted is a draft: it can be previewed in the pixelizer but not worn. Press Submit for approval and it goes to the admins' queue (F2 → Wrap & idea queue); once one approves it, it is yours to use and everybody in your match sees it on your gun. A wrap that is not approved cannot be used, and nobody else sees it. Admins' own wraps are approved on the spot. You can have five waiting at once.

Everyone sees your wrap. Whichever wrap you have on (a built-in, a contract wrap or an approved one) is sent with you, and other players see it on the weapon in your hands. Character skins you paint are shared the same way they were before.

Weapon ideas. Gun Skins → Send a weapon idea sends a name and a few sentences to the admins, who read them from the same queue.

Third-person weapons. Other players (and bots, up to a limit) now hold the weapon's own model, not one of four stand-in shapes, so a chain gun looks like a chain gun. They aim up and down with where their owner is looking.

🧪 Wraps on melees and utilities, and utility skins

The weapon wrap you pick under Gun Skins now goes on melees and utilities as well as guns. (A melee or utility is dressed the first time you hold it after choosing a wrap, so there is nothing to wait for; the fists keep their skin.) Utilities also have skins of their own, a different object in your hand with the same throw, blast and number of uses:

⚔️ Duel Maps (4) · 1v1 and 2v2

A 1v1 on a map built for ten people was mostly walking, and the first duel maps (36 × 56 m) turned out to be too tiny the other way, and so were the next ones (72 × 112 m). 1v1 now draws from four arenas of its own at 144 × 224 m, twice the length and the breadth again: the spawns are 200 m apart, about half a minute to the other side at a walk, less if you slide or take a ramp. Each map is the old arena laid in all four quarters (the second one turned over) plus pieces made for the whole map, and it is full of high walls: long walls 5.5 m tall (nothing is seen over them from the floor), at least 24 on every map and some in every quarter, one across the whole middle, and screens in front of each spawn. The build check counts them. A grid floor and flat colours, laid out rotationally symmetric (turn the map half a circle and it is the same map), so neither spawn has the better side. Every one has ramps up onto something worth standing on, and each is built from a different mix of walls (long walls, waist-high walls, windowed walls with a sill and a lintel, arches, L-shaped bunkers, crate stacks, decks), with pillars only a small part of one. They are dealt to 1v1 and to 2v2 now and then (they are on 2v2's vote screen and about three random 2v2 draws in ten land on one, since there is room for four); they never come up in anything else. You vote for the map once your opponent is found, not before (see Voting for the map): the same pick plays and two different picks are settled by a coin flip. A bot votes too: it reads a plan drawn from the map's real walls, ramps and spawns and judges how much cover there is, how long the lanes run and how much high ground there is, then picks the map its taste likes (an easy bot changes its mind more). Nobody voting in 15 seconds is a random map. You cannot see your opponent at the start: something solid and wider than the spawn stands across the middle of every one, and the build check fails if any line from one spawn to the other is clear.

🎬 Finishers (17)

A finisher is what happens to the body of the person you finish: it moves in a way of its own and it takes the body away from the ragdoll, which never starts while a finisher you chose is playing. Pick yours in 🎭 Skins → Finisher (with a ▶ Preview that finishes a dummy in front of you once you are in the game). It is sent with your skin, so everybody who watches you finish someone sees yours. Automatic is how it always was: the finisher follows your weapon and the body falls as a ragdoll.

🎖 Contract Wraps (9)

Not for sale, and not quick. Each of these gun wraps is earned by finishing a long contract in real matches (not the range, the Obby or the lobby): they are meant to take weeks. Progress is kept in your browser and shows under Gun Skins → Contract Wraps, locked ones with a bar. Every one of them moves, and all but Prismatic glow.

A win streak counts matches you won one after another; a loss ends it, a draw does not. A life ends when you die or a match ends. A kill counts for the weapon that landed it, and an ability shot (a Railgun's charge, a Lever's power shot) counts for its weapon. Every gun in play is on the Xpert list, the Frost Blaster included now that it does damage.

💥 Muzzle blasts

Every gun used to go off the same way: one orange spike and a puff, bigger or smaller. A shot now looks like the gun it came from:

The light at the muzzle leads white-hot and settles to the gun's colour. Everything is short (the ring is gone in 80 ms, embers in about 0.2 s) and stays out of the middle of the screen, so you can still see what you hit.

👣 Hearing other people

Only your own footsteps used to be played, so on a 144 × 224 m duel map finding the other person was a long silent walk. Everyone else steps out loud now, and it works the way your ears would:

Why: it is the sound a shooter uses to find an opponent, and it rewards the quiet play it asks for (crouch to creep up on someone). Turn it off in ⚙ → ENEMY FOOTSTEPS if it is too busy.

🎵 Music

The game plays its own music: there are no sound files, it is made by the game as you play, so it costs nothing to download. The lobby and the menus have a theme, and six maps have a track of their own: Atoll (a steel-drum calypso), Sky Arena (slow choir and bells), Shipyard (a heavy machine groove), Battleground (a stadium beat), Neon Tokyo and Cyber (synthwave) and the space maps (Space, Orbital Station, Gravity Lab: a slow drift). Every other map stays quiet, as it always was. Turn it down or off in ⚙ → MUSIC. It starts with your first click (a browser will not play sound before one).

🧱 Worn-down maps

The maps were too perfect: clean walls, clean floors, every edge square, every surface one flat colour. Every map now gets a wear pass the first time it is played (after its dressing, with the other upgrades), and it is all detail, never geometry you can hit: no collider, nothing you can stand on or shoot, no change to any route. It is made of two batches per map (one draw call each):

• Decals on the real faces of the real boxes and on the floor: dirt that gathers at the foot of every wall (and moss, or dust drifted against it, depending on the place), rain streaks and rust runs from the top, plaster and paint that have come away in ragged patches (a pale, rough patch with a shadow behind it), square repair patches in a different tone, cracks that wander and fork, stains, big soft blotches of a different tone that break a wall or floor up from across the map, scorch marks and bullet holes, scuffs, damp patches, and patched bits of floor.
• Rubble: small loose chunks heaped at the foot of walls and scattered on the floor.

How much, and in what dirt, depends on the place: a trench, the sewer or Chernobyl are filthy (soot, rust, moss), urban streets are cracked and chipped and the desert is dusty and flaking. Places that are not meant to look used are left clean: the neon and sci-fi maps (Cyber City, Studio, Dreamscape, the space station, the labs, the vault), the fairground ones (Carnival, Holiday, Traffic Cone Republic), the opera house and the supermarket — rust and soot on a hard-light city read as a different map. So are the 1v1 duel arenas (plain grid, flat colours), the shooting range, Lobby 13 and the pinball arcade. On a dark wall dirt would not show, so there the wear is the pale kind (dust, lime, scuffed paint). Everything is seeded by the map’s name, so everybody’s copy is worn the same way, and the map-vote screenshots show it.

Why: a place that has been fought over, lived in and rained on looks like one, and the eye finds a flat, square, clean surface instantly: it is the quickest tell that something is a 3D model. Nothing here changes how a map plays.

🎲 The RNG pool

Dice Duel and Weapon Roulette deal from one pool, by tier, and it holds three kinds of thing: guns, melees and utilities. Most of it is the retired gimmick weapons: items taken out of the shop and the loadout because they are too odd, too strong or too silly for a normal match (Potato Cannon, Portal Launcher, Pinball Launcher, Lightsabre, Orbital Strike, Hunter Drone, Rubber Duck...) are exactly what a dice roll is for, so they come up in these modes and nowhere else. The tier is how good the thing is in a duel against a gun, so melees and most utilities sit low: rolling a Frying Pan is a bad day, which is the point. Every tier holds all three kinds, and a roll is a melee or a utility about one time in five. Weapon Roulette deals you a gun 70% of the time, a melee 15% and a utility 15% (a new one every 20 seconds into the same two-slot kit), and bots in either mode can only fight with guns. Retired items come up a quarter as often as the other things in their tier, so the odd leftovers stay a surprise and the everyday guns stay the usual roll. The one admin item in the pool is the Ω Omega Pistol (SS tier): one bullet that kills whatever it hits, and the one way anybody but an admin gets to fire it. It is yours alone: a bot is never dealt it. The test (verify-boot.js --rng) puts every item in the pool in your hands, uses it and gives your own kit back, and counts how often the Omega Pistol and the retired items turn up.

🗺️ Voting for the map

The map used to be chosen on the mode screen before anyone was found, and only 1v1 had a vote. Now there is no picking up front: every lobby match asks once the people are known. Each human votes for a map from a screenshot of it (taken from a corner, about three-quarters, through a first-person lens), the map with the most votes plays and a tie is a coin flip. 1v1 chooses among the four duel maps; 2v2 among the whole pool and the four duel maps; everything else among the whole pool, in a scrolling grid. A bot only votes when it is your opponent in a 1v1; in any other mode only people do, so alone against bots your pick is final. Nobody voting in 15–25 seconds is a random map. King of the Hill and the M4 towers play their own arena and skip the vote. A mode with nobody to vote with (Dice Duel, Weapon Roulette, Pie Fight: you and bots) shows the same screen to you alone, with a RANDOM button.

Why: a map chosen before you know who you are fighting is a guess; chosen after, it is a negotiation, and a picture of the place says more than its name. The screenshots are made by tools/render-map-previews.js, which loads every map in a headless browser and picks the best of about 48 cameras for each (not facing a wall, lit, plenty to see); run it again when a map changes.

📱 Touch controls

Phone players said two things: the buttons were too small, and some did not work. Both were true. The JUMP button set a flag that only an old, retired piece of the jump code read, so tapping it launched no one; and SLIDE only started if the stick was already being held, but the thumb that holds the stick is not the one that reaches the button.

⚙ → TOUCH CONTROLS (the CONTROLS button on a phone, where there are no keys to rebind) has sliders for button size (0.7–1.5×, held to what the screen can fit), button opacity, joystick size and look sensitivity — the window fades while a slider is held so you can watch the buttons change — and MOVE BUTTONS, which lets you drag every button (including the ability and SWAP ones that only appear when needed) wherever your hands are. Positions are saved on the device, separately for landscape and portrait, and are pulled back on screen if the screen is smaller than the one they were set on. RESET TO DEFAULT undoes all of it.

Why: a layout that does not fit the hand is the first thing a new phone player runs into, and a button that does nothing teaches them the game is broken. Letting them place the buttons is the fix that works for every hand and every phone.

🧭 How the bots get round walls

Bots used to steer straight at you and feel their way round whatever was in the way, which was fine for a pillar and not for a long wall: on Duel Grid and Crossroads a bot ran back and forth along the centre divider for a whole minute, and on seven of sixteen older maps (urban, airport, trenches, studio, supermarket, labyrinth, sewer) a bot sent across the map simply did not arrive. When the straight line to you is blocked at kerb height a bot now follows a route over a grid of what a body can walk (every bot shares one fill from your position, rebuilt as you move or as cover is destroyed): it cuts across open floor and only turns at corners, keeps a body's width off them, treats anything taller than a kerb as a wall (a ramp's own steps included), steers clear of damage zones, and if it finds itself caught it goes cell by cell for a few seconds. It still falls back to the old steering wherever it has no route. The grid is 1.5 m wherever it can be (a thin wall can never fall between its cells; on Urban they used to, and a bot walked straight into the wall and stayed there). In a test of one bot sent across each map, 64 of 64 runs on eight maps (the four duel maps, Urban, Trenches, Airport, Supermarket) arrived.

🤖 Who the bots shoot

In team fights (1v1 to 3v3 rounds, 5v5, 10v10 and Frontlines) every bot, on either side, goes for the nearest opponent: your allies are as much a target for the enemy as you are. It used to be that the enemy bots all ignored your teammates and walked straight at you, while those teammates, whose shots at other bots always land, shot them in the back; so the player's side won nearly every match, by a lot. Base Raid is the exception: its guards are there for you.

Difficulty Tiers

🏛️ Lobby System

Every multiplayer mode routes you through a staging lobby. Players ready up, and the undermanned side can vote to fill with bots or play short-handed. Each match runs in its own isolated bubble — concurrent games don't bleed into each other.

🗺️ Maps

Most maps have one mechanic of its own that no other map has — the name and what it does is below. A few were cut because all they asked of you was to wait for a warning and not be there (the sewer flush, the moai roar, the temple boulder, the foundry presses, urban rush hour); those maps are plain places now. They are built once, on the finished layout, from GIM[map] in game.js.

🤫 Map Secrets

🔫 Weapon Arsenal

Over 200 weapons across 4 slots. Most are buyable in the shop; admin items are promo-code only.

Every gun now punches the actual camera on fire, not just the viewmodel — it used to be that only a handful of weapons (the Revolver most noticeably) visibly kicked the screen; the rest only wiggled the gun prop. The kick scales off the same damage/speed/rate formula the viewmodel wobble already used, so a Revolver still hits harder than a Cycler, but nothing hits for zero anymore. It snaps back fast — this is an impact punch, not a second recoil pattern stacked on your aim.

Notable P2W Weapons

🌌 Sci-Fi P2W (Cosmic Tier)

Ten primaries with reality-bending themes: Event Horizon Rifle (168,000🍩), Void Harvester (280,000🍩), Nebula Mortar (245,000🍩), and more. Plus matching secondaries, melees, and utilities. ~3.01M donuts total

🪖 Admin Items (24)

Unlockable only via case-sensitive promo codes. Bypasses the shop entirely. Once unlocked, they're permanently free on that account.

Heavy primaries Minigun M134, Anti-Material Barrett, MK-44 Bushmaster, GAU-19, XM7, HK-MP7, P90 Spec

Secondaries Desert Eagle, M1911 Match, Walther PPK, Glock 18, Five-Seven

Combat knives Karambit, Trench Bayonet, Tomahawk, OTs-04, Spec-Ops Garrote

Utilities C4 Charge, Claymore, M84 Stun, Thermite, Predator UAV, Care Package, Tactical Nuke

📋 Best Loadouts (30 Curated)

Accessible via the 📋 BEST LOADOUTS button on the loadout screen. Tap to auto-equip.

🛒 Shop System

Open the shop from the mode-select screen. Five tabs: Bundles, Primary, Secondary, Melee, Utility, plus Chests, Wheel, and Upgrades.

🍩 Donuts

Earned at match end: 5 × kills + 50 (win) / 20 (loss), capped at 250/match. Spend on weapons, bundles, chests, wheel spins, and the Admin Pass.

💼 Bundles (26)

Save 20-60% off the sum of individual prices — bumped ~30% after the economy rebalance, since a deep bundle discount on top of "real" weapon prices was a loophole around the grind. Every bundle is a tight 1-4 item kit — no more grab-bags.

Standard

Themed

Fun

Premium P2W

💰 Earning donuts

A match pays 5🍩 a kill, plus 50🍩 for a win or 20🍩 for a loss, up to 250🍩 — about 85🍩 for an ordinary game. Every price in the game is in those same units, so the shop reads as matches of work:

New accounts start with 500🍩. Match rewards used to be multiplied by 400 while normal weapons were only doubled, so one match bought about seventy AKs; balances saved under that rate were scaled down once by the same 400, so every account kept what it had in matches.

💳 You can also just buy donuts. Four packs, $1.99 to $19.99, from about 1,000 donuts a dollar at the bottom to 2,000 at the top. Everything donuts buy is cosmetic or a weapon unlock, so paying makes you look better, not harder to kill. Stripe handles the payment and the game never sees a card number; the donuts are added by a signed message from Stripe to the server, not by the page you land on afterwards, so the receipt cannot be faked by reloading it. The store only exists if the server has been given payment keys — the offline build and any copy you run yourself simply will not show it.

📦 Chests & 🧩 Fragments

Open chests to earn weapon fragments. Spend them to unlock any priced weapon (a quarter of its donut price in fragments, 100 at least), or spend them on upgrades.

Match-end drops: Win = 50% common + 15% rare. Loss = 30% common + 5% rare. (Independent rolls — not guaranteed every match.)

🎡 Daily Wheel

One free spin per day (UTC reset). Extra spins cost 100🍩. Possible outcomes:

✨ Weapon Upgrades

Each owned weapon has three stats, each independently upgradeable up to level 10:

Costs per level (per stat): 30 / 60 / 120 / 240 / 480 / 800 / 1,200 / 1,800 / 2,500 / 3,500 fragments. Maxing one stat = 10,710 frags. Maxing all three = 32,130 frags.

🪖 Admin Pass

30,000 donuts for a 10-minute window where every weapon (including all admin items) is equippable. Trial-style flex — once it expires, you go back to what you actually own.

💡 Tips & Tricks

Useful

Strategic

😂 Fun Facts

Randomly shown in the lobby and 3 seconds after each match starts. 39 total facts across four categories: useful, strategic, secret, and funny. A sampling:

• "Chainsaw users are legally required to scream while charging."
• "Frying Pan does NOT in fact deflect bullets. Stop trying."
• "Tennis Racket reflects bullets. We don't know how."
• "Baguette ability 'Eat' heals you. Carbs."
• "Tac Nuke is balanced because it costs 250 of your fragile feelings."
• "Fists are free. They have always been free. They will always be free."
• "Trash123 has every admin item. Suspicious."

🔧 Tech Stack

• Three.js — 3D rendering
• Socket.IO — multiplayer networking
• Express + Node.js — server
• Railway — production hosting
• Vanilla JS — no framework on the client

🎮 Controls

Slide into an explosion. A blast normally shoves you away from itself, which stops a slide dead. If one goes off in front of you while you are sliding, it drives you along the slide instead — and 50% faster than the shove would have been. Behind or beside you, it pushes you the usual way.

Status effects don't follow you. Fire, a slow, a root, an adrenaline or shield buff: all of it is cleared when a round starts, when you respawn and the moment you die, and the same goes for the bots. The Cyroclasm's chill does not stack: each hit only keeps a 40% slow alive for another moment, where it used to take 8 off your speed per shot and could pin you to the floor in a second. Its laser still roots for 3 seconds, but you cannot be rooted again for 2 seconds after it ends.

🧍 Characters

Everyone is built out of hard-edged blocks wearing a pixel texture, the way a Minecraft character is. They used to be bevelled boxes with a face drawn on: brows, a nose, cheeks and a smile, softened at every edge. At the size a player actually sees another player, that reads as a plush toy rather than a character, and the nose was three brown pixels that looked like damage.

Every character texture is a 16×16 grid of whole pixels, magnified with no smoothing and no mipmaps. That rule is the whole look — one gradient or one half-pixel edge and the character stops reading as pixel art and starts reading as a small drawing, which is worse than either. Eyes are deliberately big and low on the face: at three pixels they vanished past a few metres.

Everyone is the same soldier in different colours. The kit that worked was the SWAT one, so it became the template and the default: balaclava under a helmet, a goggle band across the eyes, a plate carrier whose magazine pouches have amber tips, knee pads. The body is identical on every skin — what tells them apart is the head, which is how real kit reads at the distance you actually see another player from.

Six issues. Operator is the default, black on black with grey webbing. Soldier is olive with the goggles pushed up onto the helmet and the face uncovered — the only one in the set you can see is a person. Riot is navy behind a full clear face shield, with the face drawn dimmer through it. Desert Recon is a sand helmet, amber goggles and a shemagh wrapped over the nose and mouth, with no skin showing at all. Night Ops is three blacks and two green tubes, nothing else. Juggernaut is welded plate with a slit, lit red from inside.

The old name-seeded look is still there as Recruit, and the accessory skins (Shadow, Spiky, Green Cap, Riot Chad) keep working. Sizes, joints and hitboxes did not move by a millimetre, so animation and shooting cannot tell which skin is on.

🎨 Skins

Skins are purely cosmetic. Every one of them changes how a weapon looks — body and accent colours, the tint of its tracer, sometimes a effect shell like crystal or smoke — and none of them changes damage, spread, fire rate, magazine, reload or anything else that decides a fight. A gold AK kills exactly as fast as a cardboard one.

That is enforced in code rather than by discipline: a skin's stats are filtered down to the cosmetic keys before they ever reach the weapon, so a skin that declared a damage number would simply be ignored.

There are three kinds. Colour themes (70+) repaint every gun at once. The newest six are paintings rather than plain colours: veined Marble, chip-and-cement Terrazzo, a night-drive Synthwave sun over a glowing grid, a Blueprint covered in dimension lines, and two camo recolours (Desert Storm, Midnight Digital) — the point being that a wrap can be a whole picture, not just a tint. Model skins replace the weapon with a different object entirely — 91 of them across 72 guns, from the AUG to a leaf blower, a slushie machine, a telescope on the SR-X, a banana Desert Eagle, an accordion MG42, a boombox for a shockwave launcher, a toaster for twin barrels and a tuba where the bazooka was — and they keep the weapon's stats, its reload track and its prop beats, so nothing about the fight changes. Melee model skins do the same for the other hand: 30 of them — every melee you can actually equip now has an alternative, admin blades included. The knife becomes a floss dispenser, the fire axe becomes an actual electric guitar (it is called an axe), the riot shield becomes a trash can lid, the lightsabre becomes a fluorescent tube, the Vampire Blade becomes a ketchup bottle, the Volt Whip becomes a string of Christmas lights and the Gravity Hammer becomes a meat tenderizer. On the admin rack the Karambit becomes a can opener, the Trench Bayonet a cocktail toothpick, the Tomahawk an ice scraper, the OTs-04 a nail file and the Spec-Ops Garrote a phone charger. Same damage, same reach, same ability.

One family goes further than a different object. The emoticon skins are guns drawn out of characters — the text gun ᵕᠵデᡁ╼━ stretched into three dimensions, white faces with black rims and nothing in between. There are five of them, on the AK-20, pistol, SR-X, SG8 and minigun, and they fire -. The dash is the only thing in the game a skin changes about a projectile, it is still purely cosmetic, and it only applies to rounds YOU fire: an enemy holding the same weapon is holding their own skin, and the server is never told about any of it.

Every gun skin has its own sound, and every object has its own reload. A barcode scanner beeps and takes a battery; a glue gun takes a glue stick in the back; the crisp tube is refilled with crisps; the champagne is shaken and re-corked; the egg timer is wound; the pipe organ has its bellows pumped; the emoticon guns are backspaced and retyped. Skins that are real guns — the AUG, the Dragunov, the M249 — keep their gun’s reload, because they take the same ammunition, but each has its own voice. All of it is heard only by you: other players hear your gun, not your skin.

Everything you draw is pulled up from the hip, and it takes time. A weapon swings up from off-screen bottom-right as one rigid object, and until it is up you cannot shoot, swing, throw, reload or use its ability (a thin bar under the crosshair drains while you wait; the quick ones show none). The time depends on what it is, from the table in the game: sidearms take 0.3–0.5 s (the pistol is the quickest gun at 0.3, the hand cannon the slowest sidearm at 0.5), small blades are nearly instant (fists 0.10, knife 0.12, katana 0.17), SMGs about 0.52–0.56 s, an AK-20 0.7 s, rifles and shotguns 0.65–0.9 s, launchers and machine guns about a second to 1.25 s, and the minigun 1.5 s, the slowest and the cap: nothing takes longer. A big melee is in between (a sledge 0.52, a chainsaw 0.6). Pressing the key for what you are already holding costs nothing, quick melee (B) takes no time, there or back, and a Dice Duel roll is its own wait. The old weight table could not say which gun is heavy (every sidearm and utility is the same 0.05, and the minigun shares a 0.30 with the sledge), so this is a table by weapon, with a default per slot for anything new.

Some skins make a better entrance. Draw the Hyperspace AK and it arrives as crystal shards hanging in space around your hands, which then fuse into a rifle. The Origami Pistol folds itself up out of a sheet of paper, the Brick XM7 is snapped together a brick at a time, the 8-Bit SR-X pops in a pixel at a time, and the Portal SG8 steps out of a portal. It is only something to look at: fire, reload or aim and the gun is instantly whole, so an entrance can never make you slower to shoot.

Close range gets them too. The Hyperspace Knife fuses from crystal like the AK; the Butterfly Knife’s handles flip round the blade and close as the grip; the Laser Katana’s blade runs out of the hilt; the Frost Axe is tossed up and caught; the Outlaw Shorty spin-cocks round its loop lever; and the Gunslinger twirls twice round the trigger finger. Swing a blade or fire a gun and it is instantly ready.

A few never stop moving while you hold them. The Singularity Knife is pulled out of a black hole — stretched thin as it comes — and black and white sparks flash off it constantly. The Sakura Katana blooms out of a swirl of petals and keeps shedding them. The Thunder Spear arrives on a lightning strike with arcs crawling along the shaft. The Blueprint AK is the AK as its own technical drawing: it scans itself in and flickers like a hologram. The Glitch Deagle teleports together, and every so often a piece is somewhere it should not be.

More of them: the Fishbowl Carbine fills with water when drawn and three fish live in it; the Clockwork Coilgun clicks together like something wound, its gears never stop turning and it lets off steam; the Neon SMG warms up a tube at a time like a sign, its colours drifting; the Constellation Launcher draws its stars, then the lines between them, then itself, with stars twinkling inside; the Phantom Cannon fades up out of nothing and breathes, shedding wisps; and the Balloon Sword is blown up hilt to tip and never quite stops wobbling.

🌈 The Rainbow AK is split out of a prism. A beam of white light hits a spinning prism in front of your hands, it splits into seven, and every piece of the AK comes out of the prism along its own colour — red first, violet last. The prism shatters, rainbow rings blast out, and from then on the colours flow down the gun. Its rounds are rainbow too.

🎬 Entrances come out of Skin Case Gen 2. Every skin above that plays an animation when you draw it — 60 of them, 45 guns and 15 melee — is dealt by that case: 5,000🍩 — about 59 matches, well under any P2W weapon (cheapest is 84,000🍩). Rarity sets the odds rather than the price. The roll is weighted mythic 1 : legendary 2 : rare 3 : good 6, so a balloon knife turns up early and often while the Rainbow AK sits at roughly 1% on a fresh account and each of the fourteen donut weapons at half that. No case is ever wasted: each one deals a skin you do not own yet, and duplicates only start once you own them all, so the whole set is exactly 60 cases — 300,000🍩, which nobody is going to finish. The server owns both the roll and the record of what you have pulled, so neither can be claimed from the browser. The Legend entrances below are not in it — those are earned, not bought.

There are two cases. Gen 1 (1,500🍩) holds the basic skins and the realistic military models: the Dragunov, the M249, the Remington 870, the MGL. Gen 2 (5,000🍩) holds the entrances. You can buy a case anywhere, but you have to be standing in Lobby 13 to open one.

The Donut Case used to be a third, with a pool of two — which is a vending machine, not a case. Both its weapons draw with an animation, which is Gen 2’s whole rule, so The Glazer and the Ring King moved there as its rarest tier, and twelve more donut guns — the Glazed AK, Rocket Cruller, Glazed Uzi, Snack Sidearm, Powdered Pump, Long John SR-X, Sprinkle Vector, Glaze Launcher, Sprinkle Spinner, Creamline MP40, Dessert Eagle and Doughboy Shorty — joined them. Each is half as likely as the Rainbow AK, about 0.5% on a fresh account. Their rounds are little glazed donuts that leave a glowing trail, and they fire with a metallic ring instead of a pop. Anyone still holding an unopened Donut Case gets a Gen 2 case instead.

🧟 The Field Radio is the one skin you cannot buy, open or roll for: you get it by escaping the Zombie Tower. Climb the twenty-four floors, survive the horde on the roof, kill the last of them, pick up the radio it drops and call for the way out, and the AK-20 becomes that radio — olive set, amber frequency window, a whip aerial where the barrel was, the handset on its coiled cord clipped to the side. It keeps the AK-20’s stats like every other model skin. The server hands it over the first time an account completes the mission (a run under five minutes is ignored), and it stays yours after that.

🔥 FFA Legend skins are the real weapon, cursed: turned to obsidian, the small hardware glowing like embers, spikes driven out along the spine and flanks, and black and red fire burning off the top with embers lifting off it. Drawing one makes the fire flare up with a whoomph, and your rounds fly as red-hot streaks trailing black smoke. There are eight: the AK-20, pistol, SG8, SR-X and Vector, and the knife, katana and bat.

They are earned, and it is meant to take forever: deal 1,000,000 damage in FFA, or win 5,000 FFA matches — whichever comes first unlocks all eight at once. Progress shows on every locked Legend in the skins panel. Damage is counted by the server as it lands, so it cannot be claimed; a win only counts from a real FFA match that has run at least 30 seconds, where you landed a kill the server saw. You need to be logged in for any of it to count.

Every Legend makes its own entrance and none are alike: the AK rises out of an eruption of fire; the pistol is packed in a black cube that folds open; the SG8 is forged, red hot under three hammer blows, and cools with a hiss; the SR-X rains down in pieces like meteors; the Vector spirals in on a fiery vortex; the knife is thrown up and drilled round three times; the katana is drawn from a black scabbard; the bat is slammed down with a ring of fire. The fire catches with a whoomph once it is whole. None of the guns reload with a magazine either: a wave of red light bursts through the AK; the pistol takes a burning soul; the SG8 takes coals; the SR-X draws red energy back up its barrel; and the Vector takes a molten magazine.

The older melee skins (27 of them) were a name and a look on the same weapon, keeping the base item's numbers and its ability. A skin that is only a different caption is not a skin, so they have all been deleted (Brass Knuckles, Hatchet, Machete, Cane, Lead Pipe, Wrench, Shovel, Gold Brick, Tennis Racket, Nonstick Pan and the rest); what players had already pulled stays in their inventory and does nothing. Before that the same rule had already taken Dental Floss, Pool Noodle and Umbrella Sword.

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Abilities that move you are animated now. Ground Slam (Sledge, Shovel, the hammers) is a crouch, a leap about ten metres up and forward, a beat at the top with the hammer overhead, then a dive — it lands with a boom, a shockwave ring and a camera shake. Lunge, Shield Charge, Shoulder Rush, Charge! and Ghost Dash are a real dash with the weapon thrust out that hits everything it passes through. The auto-swing abilities (Slash Combo, Butcher, Spetsnaz Combo, Combo Frenzy) now play a full stroke per swing and carry you forward with it; they swing every 100–240 ms where they used to restart the swing every frame. The Sledge's head is twice the size.

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